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Learn more about Brave Clojure On-Site Training

Movement

Keys Description
C-a Move to beginning of line.
M-m Move to first non-whitespace character on the line.
C-e Move to end of line.
C-f Move forward one character.
C-b Move backward one character.
M-f Move forward one word (I use this a lot).
M-b Move backward one word (I use this a lot, too).
C-s Regex search for text in current buffer and move to it. Press C-s again to move to next match.
C-r Same as C-s, but search in reverse.
M-< Move to beginning of buffer.
M-> Move to end of buffer.
M-g g Go to line.

Killing and yanking

Keys Description
C-w Kill region.
M-w Copy region to kill ring.
C-y Yank.
M-y Cycle through kill ring after yanking.
M-d Kill word.
C-k Kill line.

Getting Help

Keys Description
C-h k key-binding Describe the function bound to the key binding. To get this to work, you actually perform the key sequence after typing C-h k.
C-h f Describe function.

Working with frames and windows

Keys Description
C-x o Switch cursor to another window. Try this now to switch between your Clojure file and the REPL.
C-x 1 Delete all other windows, leaving only the current window in the frame. This doesn’t close your buffers, and it won’t cause you to lose any work.
C-x 2 Split frame above and below.
C-x 3 Split frame side by side.
C-x 0 Delete current window.

Clojure Buffer key bindings

Keys Description
C-c M-n Switch to namespace of current buffer.
C-x C-e Evaluate expression immediately preceding point.
C-c C-k Compile current buffer.
C-c C-d C-d Display documentation for symbol under point.
M-. and M-, Navigate to source code for symbol under point and return to your original buffer.
C-c C-d C-a Apropros search; find arbitrary text across function names and documentation.

CIDER buffer key bindings

Keys Description
C-↑, C-↓ Cycle through REPL history.
C-enter Close parentheses and evaluate.

Paredit key bindings

Keys Description
M-x paredit-mode Toggle paredit mode.
M-( Surround expression after point in parentheses (paredit-wrap-round).
C-→ Slurp; move closing parenthesis to the right to include next expression.
C-← Barf; move closing parenthesis to the left to exclude last expression.
C-M-f, C-M-b Move to the opening/closing parenthesis.